Dan Kois

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Dan Kois

If you’re turned off by the title of the new Apple TV+ science fiction series Murderbot, let me first assure you that it’s mostly meant to be tongue in cheek. Though the titular robot played by Alexander Skarsgård can (and does) kill during the course of this charming series, that name—which the security android gives itself in the spirit of its newfound freedom, having hacked the module governing its behavior—is somewhat aspirational.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dan Kois

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysIf you’re turned off by the title of the new Apple TV+ science fiction series Murderbot, let me first assure you that it’s mostly meant to be tongue in cheek.

1 month ago | slate.com | Dan Kois

“What is Florida anyway?” the columnist-turned-revolutionary Skip Wiley asks in Tourist Season, the first of Carl Hiaasen’s bestselling crime capers set in the Sunshine State. “An immense sunny toilet where millions of tourists flush their money and save the moment on Kodak film.” Skip Wiley is, ostensibly, the villain of Tourist Season, pitted against his former co-worker Brian Keyes, a good-looking ex-reporter who’s trying to make it in the PI business.

1 month ago | slate.com | Dan Kois

Julian Schnabel made his debut film, Basquiat, less than a decade after its subject, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at age 27. An impressionistic portrait of a young artist who took the New York scene by storm, Basquiat was divisive upon its release in 1996. Some critics praised Jeffrey Wright’s quiet, sly performance, as well as the murderers’ row of character actors surrounding him—Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Parker Posey, Benicio del Toro, and Willem Dafoe among them.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Dan Kois

Julian Schnabel made his debut film, Basquiat, less than a decade after its subject, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at age 27. An impressionistic portrait of a young artist who took the New York scene by storm, Basquiat was divisive upon its release in 1996. Some critics praised Jeffrey Wright’s quiet, sly performance, as well as the murderers’ row of character actors surrounding him—Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Parker Posey, Benicio del Toro, and Willem Dafoe among them.